Every administrator is a local account
At a glance
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Reads the export, not the device
ConfigProof reads a configuration export. This control is evaluated against the objects in that file, and it reports what the file says. It does not connect to the device and sees no traffic, so a finding here describes the configuration, not what the firewall is doing right now.
Why it matters
Local accounts are not removed when a person leaves and do not get the directory's password policy or multi-factor authentication.
How to fix it
Web interface
The steps below are written for the web interface. A finding raised on your own export carries the same steps with your object names filled in.
- In ISE: Administration > System > Admin Access > Authentication > Authentication Method > set an external identity source (Active Directory, LDAP or SAML), map directory groups to admin groups, and keep one local break-glass account.
Command line
This analyzer version writes no command text for this control. The steps above are the remediation it offers.
How to confirm the fix
- In ISE: Admin Access > Administrators > Admin Users: the external users list.
Limits
- No limitation is recorded for this control beyond the one that applies to all of them: it reads a configuration export.
Compliance references
No benchmark recommendation is mapped to this control in this version.
More in Administrators and Access
- PAN-SEC-127Password profile expires passwords later than 90 days, or never
- PAN-SEC-128Administrative idle timeout is longer than 10 minutes
- ISE-MGT-001TACACS+ command set permits every command
- ISE-MGT-002TACACS+ command set permits every command it does not list
- ISE-MGT-003Privilege 15 shell profile on a broad rule
- ISE-MGT-004Network device without TACACS+ settings
- ISE-MGT-013More Super Admin accounts than needed
- ISE-MGT-014Several local administrators with Inactive account never disabled
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